I don’t wear the red on my sleeve.

Steven Saus injects people with radioactivity as his day job, but only to serve the forces of good. His work has appeared in multiple anthologies and magazines both online and off. He also publishes as Alliteration Ink. You can find him at stevensaus.com and alliterationink.com.

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“Why aren’t you wearing red today?” The co-worker’s voice is shrill, sanctimonious righteousness dripping from her tone. “Don’t you know that wearing red today shows that you support women’s heart health?”

What I didn’t say, what I wish I’d said, was this: “Rather than exploit underpaid garment workers and line the pockets of clothing executives to show off how good a person I am, I’d rather actually support women’s heart health by supporting a living wage and universal health care so that all women could afford treatment and the more expensive healthy foods needed for cardiovascular health.